VideoLAN Player has just been updated to version 0.8.6. A couple of very cool features have been added like codec support for Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video, a Fullscreen controller and if your a Mac user, it now supports the Apple Remote. VLC is the only video player I use. It pretty much plays anything I can throw at it and it is free and open source!

P.J. Onori has created an interesting and clever set of web icons that can be changed to any color simply by setting the CSS background-color property of the img tag that points to the icon.

IconBuffet is offering free, royalty-free icons and illustrations that you can use on your website, your blog, a client’s website, or commercial software. The only catch is that you need to sign-up for a free account with them. If you’ve seen their previous works, there’s no reason not to sign-up!

Looking for a free, open-source alternative to commercial programs like Partition Magic, Drive Image, and Norton Ghost? Partition Logic is a hard disk partitioning and data management tool that can create, delete, format, and move and clone partitions. It boots from a CD or floppy disk and runs as a standalone system, independent of your regular operating system.

Google Analytics is a new free offering by the search engine giant that provides excellent web analytics for website owners and developers. The product is based on Urhcin, which Google recently purchased. I’ve installed it on a couple of my own sites, and other than the Google Analytics site being slow, it was very easy to create an account and begin tracking visits. Google gives you a small snippet of JavaScript code that gets added to each page you want to track.